Written by Eddy Frankel, Eddy Frankel, Joshua Rothkopf, Trevor Johnston, Ashley Clark, Grady Hendrix, Tom Huddleston, Keith Uhlich, Dave Calhoun, Phil de Semlyen, Dave Calhoun & Matthew Singer
We polled over 50 experts in the field, from Die Hard director John McTiernan to Machete himself, Danny Trejo, along with Time Out ’s writers, and the results show just how awesome and unique the best action movies can be when done correctly. This list of the greatest action films ever made is proof that the genre is more versatile than it appears. The right director can choreograph violence with almost balletic grace, while the right actors actually make you care about the person trying to outrun the bullets and the bombs. But anyone who’s ever allowed their senses to get shattered by the booms, blasts and breaking bones of a truly great action movie knows that there are few moviegoing experiences that can compare.Īlso, not all action movies need be loud and dumb. In a lot of cases – maybe even most of them – that characterisation is certainly true. Among highfalutin cineastes, action movies are too often considered trashy, low-brow junk food, replacing all story and substance with eardrum-shattering explosions and mindless violence. Not that it ever hurts them at the box office – the general public loves them, of course. Action is one of cinema’s most misunderstood genres.
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